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Sean Baker (born February 26, 1971) is an American filmmaker. He is best known for directing independent feature films about the lives of sex workers , [2] [3] including Take Out (2004), Starlet (2012), Tangerine (2015), The Florida Project (2017), Red Rocket (2021), and Anora (2024), the last of which won him the Palme d'Or at the 2024 Cannes ...
Sean Baker is a graduate of NYU's Tisch School of the Arts. He is an award-winning writer/director/producer known for Take Out (2004), Prince of Broadway (2008), Starlet (2012), Tangerine (2015), and The Florida Project (2017). Sean's latest feature, Red Rocket, premiered at Cannes on July 14, 2021.
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Sean Baker is a graduate of NYU's Tisch School of the Arts. He is an award-winning writer/director/producer known for Take Out (2004), Prince of Broadway (2008), Starlet (2012), Tangerine (2015), and The Florida Project (2017). Sean's latest feature, Red Rocket, premiered at Cannes on July 14, 2021.
May 25, 2024 · Sean Baker’s “Anora,” a comic but devastating Brooklyn odyssey about a sex worker who marries the son of a wealthy Russian oligarch, won the Cannes Film Festival’s top award, the Palme d’Or.
Oct 17, 2022 · Rewind to 2004, and the prototype for the director’s style, its combination of compassion and curiosity about the unseen stories of lives lived on the fringes of US society, is all there in his early jewel of a film Take Out, restored and re-released this month on Criterion Collection Blu-ray.
Dec 10, 2021 · Part journeyman anthropologist and part mondo filmmaker, Baker trains his camera on (mostly distaff) worlds that often lie beneath the threshold of public consciousness, from Hollywood’s black...
Nov 7, 2012 · American filmmaker Sean Baker is a white guy, but the four features he has written and directed over the last decade delve far deeper into the crevices of a country that contains many more...
